GIFT  OF 
Class   of   1900 


The  Spirit  of  Peace 

Fred  Emerson  Brocks 


This  poem  was  written  by  Mr.  Brooks  for  Lookout  Mountain,  W.  R.  C., 

and  read  by  its  President,  Mrs.  Georgia  Hodgman,  at  the  dedication  of  the 

Peace  Monument  in  Berkeley,  California,  February  twenty-second,  nineteen 

hundred  and  twelve,  the  seventh  stanza  being  set  in  the  bronze 

tablet  on  the  side  of  the  monument 


Copyrighted  1912   , 
By  Fred  Emerson   Brooks 


From  the  Press  of 
Jo  Anderson,  416  J  Street 

Sacramento,  Cal. 

Illustrations  by  Mary  Crete  Crouch 


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e  Rear  Ike  dead  of  ages  cry- 
Aid  all  the  foiling  millions  plead:- 
HOW  long  shall  human  beings  die 
To  satisfy  a  nations  greed? 

Let  Christian  nations  tear  in  mind 
Inis  world  is  But  a  monster  school 

Where  they  are  set  to  teach  mankind 
Gods  charter  law- the  Golden  Rule. 

Can  we  our  conscience  justify 
While  selling  savage  nations  rum? 

Is  war  religions  tattle  cry? 
Shall  we  serve  God  wilh  fife  and  drum? 


Let  all  the  ships  that  plow  the  sea 
the  human  race  still  closer  hind; 

While  that  proud  banner  of  the  free 
To  world-wide  peace  leads  all  mankind . 

Let  freedoms  soaring  eagle  scare 
All  warring  vultures  from  the  earth 

ftnd  heavenward  all  the  incense  hear 
ihal  mothers  kirn  around  the  hearft. 


Wars  curse  is  not  alone  its  dead; 

What  endless  grief  the  baffle  stark 
me  palh  of  glory  heroes  tread 

Is  ever  paved  wilh  broken  hearfs. 


Let  women  weep  no  longer  for 
Their  loved  ones  slain  by  man's  caprice: 

From  out  the  palsied  throat  of  war 
mere  comes  the  silent  prayer  for  peace. 


This  war  scarred  monster  seems  to  say: 

War  is  a  nations  only  Vice: 
Give  thou  thy  fellow  man  fair  play 

nnd  make  this  world  a  paradise. 

War  clouds  mil  never  mar  the  sly 
When  peacefol  mortals  come  to  know- 

The  first  to  shout  the  iatfle  cjry 
Do  not  themselves  to  Battle  go. 


Lei  nalions  ty  some  wiser  scheme. 

Wifli  world-wide  laws  to  make  them  just: 
A  world-empowered  Court  Supreme 

Wifti  world-police  to  say-theymust ! 

Let  precious  Wood  no  more  be  shed, 
Nor  human  hacks  wilh  taxes  bend ; 

Let  war  have  no  more  tribute  dead! 
Cries  Reason:  Let  there  be  an  end! 


Gaylord  Bros.,  Inc. 

Makers 

Stockton,  Calif. 
PAT.  JAN.  21.  1908 


YC   14607 


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